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HB 491 Louisiana House · 2019 Regular Session

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for the regulation of industrial hemp (EN INCREASE SD EX See Note)

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
House Passage
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Mar 29, 2019 Signed Jun 6, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jun 1, 2019 · House May 7, 2019

How they voted

25–1
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 28
Jun 1, 2019
D Democratic7
4 Yea 1 Nay 2
57% Yea
R Republican21
21 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
23
Key actions
5
Committee
6
Amendments
3
Jun 6, 2019
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 164.
lower
Jun 3, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
Jun 2, 2019
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
Jun 1, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 27, 2019
Committee
Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 22, 2019
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 22, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
upper
May 21, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments.
upper
May 9, 2019
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
upper
May 7, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 25, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments (15-0).
lower
Apr 8, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
lower
Mar 29, 2019
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
lower
1 primary · 23 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Clay Schexnayder
Clay Schexnayder
RRepublican
LA
81
Co
Photo of Chad Brown
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
LA
60
Co
Photo of Chris Turner
Chris Turner
RRepublican
LA
12
Co
Photo of Denise Marcelle
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
LA
61
Co
Photo of Dustin Miller
Dustin Miller
DDemocratic
LA
40
Co
Photo of Ed Larvadain
Ed Larvadain
DDemocratic
LA
26
Co
Photo of Edmond Jordan
Edmond Jordan
DDemocratic
LA
29
Co
Photo of Franklin Foil
Franklin Foil
RRepublican
LA
16
Co
Photo of Jimmy Harris
Jimmy Harris
DDemocratic
LA
4
Co
Photo of Julie Emerson
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
LA
39
Co
JS
Julie Stokes
RRepublican
LA
79